Bost v. . Morris

When the plaintiff brought suit for a construction of the will- it was found that the second item is the substantial ground of the controversy, the others being material only as they serve to reveal the testator’s intent. It was necessary to submit to the jury a single issue, the answer to which fixed the time when the appellee delivered to the plaintiff the list of stocks which she had selected. The date was 26 January, 1928; and after this finding the court adjudged that the legatee named in the second item is entitled to all the dividends on the selected stocks since the testator’s death,…